It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

—Arnold Toynbee

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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against the tigers than they are today, when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

—Arnold Toynbee

The only real struggle in the history of the world… is between the vested interest and social justice.

—Arnold Toynbee

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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

—Arnold Toynbee

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Maybe he wasn't perfect, but he was mine. Our lives were in sync. Our goals for the future aligned.

—Melanie Harlow in Some Sort of Crazy

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

—Matthew Green

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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